Perry Reader

Biography: Perry oversees Reader Communities, after seven years heading up Crosland’s Community Development Division where the focus was various type of land development including residential and commercial properties in mixed-use, master planned projects to single use sites. A veteran real estate executive who’s been active in Florida real estate since 1975, Reader served as both president of The Celebration Company and vice president/general manager of Walt Disney Imagineering. Prior to Celebration, he developed Baldwin Park in Orlando on behalf of Atlantic Gulf Communities and managed the creation of Viera, a 38,000-acre community in east central Florida for A. Duda & Sons. Earlier in his career, he headed the Land Development Division for Scarborough Corp., a Weyerhaeuser Real Estate company subsidiary. In recent years he has chaired such organizations as the Association of Florida Community Developers, the Real Estate Advisory Board for Hough Graduate School of Business at the University of Florida and is a Full Member of the Urban Land Institute. Education: Bachelors and Master degrees from the University of Florida